Its not a rootkit. its a really crappy written browser plug in that no where says its being installed. One more reason for me to never buy Ubisoft.

Yea, that's my tough too. Launching a game via a web browser is always a bad idea, that's why I really dislike Battlefield 3. It is odd however, that this plugin can be used to launch non-uplay related programs. It's is relativaly easy to check if the program launch request is legit or not, or to make the plugin only launch 1 program with a parameter that state what game it is (something like: p.start('./uplay --ACR')) ... tus making it impossible to exploit the plugin...

UBI coders actually used base64 to encode the name of the executable to be launched. FFS, that's n00bism of the highest level! Negligence and zero care for user's safety. Someone at UBI needs to get fired right now!

**** you ubi****

So you are telling me that...

Uplay is a ****ing crappy DRM to prevent pircay?
Yet every Ubisoft game is out there already pirated?
And ME who actually BOUGHT the games, get a crappy DRM.
And ME who actually BOUGHT the game get the risk of being hacked?